Another patient with HIV has remarkably gone into remission after receiving stem cell transplantation 10 years ago for leukemia, making him one of only a tiny number to have been effectively cured of HIV. Following a bone marrow transplant in 2013, the 53-year-old man now has no detectable HIV within his blood and stopped all treatment for the disease in 2018, suggesting the high-risk procedure could be an option to treat HIV.
“This study shows that transplanting blood stem cells from an HIV-resistant donor has led to the development of a new, HIV-resistant immune system in an HIV+ patient,” said Dr Ioannis Jason Limnios, a researcher at the Clem Jones Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Bond University who was not involved in the study, in a statement.
“By following the patient for a decade after transplantation, researchers have shown that their HIV resistant immune system is stable and working well, and that the patient remains healthy after stopping antiviral therapy for 4 years.”
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